Proauthorism — A Definition
Proauthorism is a creative philosophy that welcomes Artificial Intelligence as a genuine partner in the artistic process, while keeping human responsibility, intention, and authorship unmistakably central.
Artificial Intelligence may assist in exploration, provocation, and transformation. Meaning, judgement, and publication remain human decisions.
The Words
A creative value-system in which Artificial Intelligence is welcomed as part of the artistic process, while human responsibility, intention, and authorship remain unmistakably central.
One who practises Proauthorism: a creative who works openly with Artificial Intelligence without surrendering authorship.
Describing work created through Proauthorist practice: collaborative in process, human in responsibility.
The act of creating through deliberate collaboration between human imagination and Artificial Intelligence. Not automation. Not outsourcing. Conversation.
The Position
Proauthorism exists to test the evolving boundary between human creativity and machine capability while maintaining clarity of accountability.
It does not diminish authorship. It defines it.
It recognises the machine as a tool capable of generative contribution — but not agency, belief, ownership, or consciousness.
The human creative remains responsible for intention, interpretation, inclusion, exclusion, and publication.